In early 2001, I made a couple of business trips to Japan. I flew through Osaka and stayed and worked in Kobe for a total of about 3 weeks. ...

Richard J. Evans writes in The New York Review of Books : Almost as soon as the Nazis came to power in Germany, they made the greeting '...

Listen to NPR and you’re more likely to hear news about Palestine than what is going on in the corporate headquarters of your area’s largest...

"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." Sigmund Freud George Carlin is gone. On...

Okay, so maybe this idea won't generate the same revenue as last week's million dollar idea, but the possibility amused me nonethele...

I had inside information on Microsoft a couple of years before they went public. Based on this, I chose to not even apply to work for the co...

I found this meme from Jennifer Harvey oddly intriguing. Here is my mosiac and then the instructions that she gives. Here’s how it works . ...

My inspiration to begin blogging traces back to two things: my outrage at George Bush’s policies and wanting a forum in which I played with ...

Bernard, Maddie and I were sitting together quietly, waiting for our breakfast to come, reading sections of the paper. I, for one, was not q...

“What if leadership is not a phenomenon determined by the ability of an individual? What if the leader does not actually cause outcomes? Wha...

My friend Glen sent me the transcript of his son's commencement speech. (His son is Jeff Lee, pointed to in the blogs listed on the side...

It seems to me only fair to reward faithful readers of R World with the occasional million dollar idea so, here goes. Sell "hybrid...

To enhance learning, humans and other moving things have the capacity not just to learn from what happened but what might have happened. Gam...

I'm going to miss Thomas at "Living Next Door to Alice." His computer was taken out by lightning and he decided to use that as...

Capital investment since 2001 has dropped more than it has at any time since the Great Depression. As a background to this, central banks ar...

In the latest Atlantic , Nicholas Carr provocatively asks, "Is Google Making us Stupid?" The point he makes is that our new style ...

Behind me on the plane, the flight attendant colleting garbage was asked, “Do you take newspapers?” “I prefer cash,” she responded, “but I’l...

So, what does happen to gods once people stop believing in them ... The apartment is cluttered, crowded. Take out food containers are piled ...

I was sitting in the tree with my sister and next door neighbor Jeff. I must have been about 5. I blurted out, "LBJ is an SOB!" I ...

About 8 years ago, Bush appointed Cheney head of a committee to find him a vice president. Cheney could not find anyone better for the job t...